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Quickly get to folders in CMD

When jumping around different folders in the CMD line, I’ve found using AutoHotKey really handy. Below are three scripts that I use to quickly jump from WAMP to Flywheel and back without typing out paths like a big fool. Also at F8 I have put a command to kill the nginx server. Try it out, […]

Double Marvellous Functions Timestamp XCode debugging

Timestamp on your CSS and JS in Functions file in WordPress

I’ve been trying to debug on XCode and the caching is very persistent….here’s a quick function to add to your functions file to timestamp your js or css files, so you don’t have to go crazy trying to refresh the cache when you’re working locally.

MP4 Video embed that actually works on iPhone

If you’re inclined to design or get designs with mp4s embedded in them, you’ll know that iPhone starts crying a lot of the time with them. Well after much mooching around the place and trying to get this under control I think I finally have a good working system. It’s seemingly down to the ‘playsinline’ […]

.htaccess: redirect www, force https and remove .php

Force www and remove .php from url

Embed Youtube vids – quick setup

Okay real quick – this is a whittled down bit of started code from the Youtube docs. But I do find myself searching around for a while to find it every time I need to remember where to start with the Youtube api. Anyway, all I wanted was an embedded video player that I can […]

Get Google reviews & display in HTML

So I noticed a lot of people looking for something that just outputs the Google reviews onto your site from your Google account. Should be simple right? Well you would think it would be a little simpler than this but hey. It’s not too bad. You need a few things…. Get the google maps API. […]

How do I put Facebook on my website?

So you want to put Facebook onto a page on your website. No prob! You just need to do three things. 1) Go to the Facebook Plugin page: here 2) Enter your facebook page url into the field marked ‘Facebook Page URL’. Change any other details if you wish. 3) Click ‘Get Code’ and you’ll […]

How can I send emails from my website?

Recently I was under pressure to splam a contact form solution into a one-page website at the last minute. Ordinarily if I am building something with html in PHP, I would use this Frankenstein version of Jem’s Mail Form which I have used happily for years. It does the trick without issue, and once you […]

How do you get royalty free music?

Okay so you need some royalty free music that isn’t that insufferable ukelele and whistling thing that all the banks and insurance brokers use. Youtube has always been my go-to for royalty-free music, because not only do you have plenty of good-quality uploads there, you find all sorts of uploaded content you could freely use, […]